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Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common is a Bronze Age burial site located in Berkshire. The cemetery comprises multiple round barrows, the characteristic burial mounds that typify Bronze Age funerary practice in southern England, dating to approximately 2000–1000 BCE. The site demonstrates the communal burial practices of Bronze Age communities and their territorial organisation across the chalk downland landscape of Berkshire. As a scheduled monument, it remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and death ritual in the region.
Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common. is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012811. View the official record →
Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common is a Bronze Age burial site located in Berkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012811.
Round barrow cemetery on Wash Common. is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1012811.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including An unfinished hillfort, a saucer barrow, a disc barrow and sections of two linear earthworks on Ladle Hill (8.5 km), A bell barrow and a saucer barrow 315m ESE of the unfinished hillfort on Ladle Hill (8.7 km), The western of two rectangular enclosures on Great Litchfield Down, SSW of Ladle Hill (8.7 km).
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